Michael Houck

85,000+ founders read my free weekly newsletter. Follow me to learn about startups and venture capital.

I didn't know what a startup was until after college. I wasn't lucky with connections or mentors.

But within a few years my startup raised $23 million from a16z + other investors.

Along the way I:
· Cold emailed my way into an early role at Uber Eats
· Got laid off by Airbnb during COVID
· Built an audience of ~100K across LinkedIn and X
· Started a coliving residency for startup founders in Tulum
· Co-founded a venture fund and made over 50+ early stage investments (incl. Figure and Beehiiv)

More recently I've bootstrapped my personal holdco from $0 to $100K MRR in under 2 years. We help founders through content, connections, capital, and services:

· megaphonestudio.com → let my content agency build your newsletter or social media audience
· megaphone.network → partner with big creators in your niche

· join.foundingjourney.com → get my weekly playbooks and advice alongside 75k founders (for free)
· upgrade.foundingjourney.com → get ~100 fundraising case studies from founders I interviewed
· go.foundingjourney.com/fundraising → get connected with investors (including me)

I'm also building a new YouTube channel. Here's a recent video on the history of Silicon Valley: youtu.be/alUQxEldEMM

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Aleksandr Volodarsky

Watch me grow lemon.io from $2.7m to $10m in 2021 via volodarik.com

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Hampton is a highly-vetted peer community for founders and CEOs of fast-growing startups

I'm hiring a Founding BDR.

You'll build our outbound motion from the ground up, working directly with our CRO and me. As it matures, you'll hire and lead the team you helped build.

Why now? The problem we solve is massive. Companies waste weeks building a pipeline of qualified candidates; we do it in 24-48 hours. We have PMF, we're profitable, and we already have strong inbound demand. Now we're building outbound to scale.

Native or near-native English. Hunter mentality. Genuine curiosity about what you're selling.

If that's you, DM me.

Lemon.io - hire vetted engineers from Europe and LATAM

We are still looking for the right candidate for the Head of Engineering role.

DM me directly.

Product / ex Wise, Preply / Google for Startups alumni

My friends at Lemon.io are hiring a Head of Engineering to lead a team building the best way to vet and onboard engineers at scale. 

Lemon.io is a recruitment business powered by a marketplace of vetted engineers. Profitable. Millions in revenue. Bootstrapped. Distributed team.

Real business, real momentum.

I've been helping them build their product for years now, and there is a really exciting roadmap ahead of the team.

Apply here: https://lnkd.in/e4QnFUr2

It takes us 24 hours to build a pipeline of technically vetted engineers for a client.

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